Crafty interventions at Pallant House
There's more interventionist madness at Chichester's Pallant House Gallery this autumn.
Contemporary Eye: Crossovers, is a series of interventions in the eighteenth-century house and new wing galleries by international contemporary artists exploring traditional craft techniques such as ceramics, glass, textiles, wood carving, and taxidermy. Artists include Grayson Perry, Gary Hume, Edmund de Waal, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons and Polly Morgan.
In recent years artists have used craft techniques to make art with a radical or subversive edge. Since Grayson Perry won the Turner Prize in 2003 for his decorated coil-pots, the art world has lost some of its fear and disdain for the word ‘craft’.
Contemporary Eye: Crossovers celebrates this experimentation, featuring works which challenge associations of twee country craft-shops. Artists such as Grayson Perry, Barnaby Barford and Debbie Lawson re-imagine traditional techniques to bring new meanings to their work.
The exhibition places the works in the domestic setting of Pallant House, a Grade 1-listed Queen Anne townhouse, alongside which stands a contemporary extension. Chippendale furniture from the historic rooms is relocated into the modern gallery spaces and placed in juxtaposition with a carved Arabic screen by Susan Hefuna and Nina Saunders’ amorphous furniture featuring taxidermied animal heads.
Meanwhile, Barnaby Barford’s ceramic figurines engage in a wry conversation with the Gallery’s collection of 18th century Bow Porcelain figurines, and Mona Hatoum’s glass hand grenades lay unexploded amongst a delicate collection of historic Irish glass.
The entrance hall of the house becomes an homage to traditional displays of hunting trophies and a celebration of taxidermy, featuring Polly Morgan’s glass vitrines of vermin sleeping under chandeliers, and Neil Hamon’s tableaux of stuffed animals and a copulating hare and chicken by Artists Anonymous.
The white-cube spaces of the new galleries are transformed with limited edition wallpapers by Jake and Dinos Chapman and Damien Hirst, tapestries by Grayson Perry and Gary Hume, and ceramics by the likes of Edmund de Waal, Livia Marin, Jeff Koons, and Bouke de Vraes.
Curated in association with the London-based Artwise Curators, all the works have been drawn from major private collections of contemporary art.
Contemporary Eye: Crossovers is at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester from 2nd October 2010 to 6th March 2011.
Contemporary Eye: Crossovers, is a series of interventions in the eighteenth-century house and new wing galleries by international contemporary artists exploring traditional craft techniques such as ceramics, glass, textiles, wood carving, and taxidermy. Artists include Grayson Perry, Gary Hume, Edmund de Waal, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons and Polly Morgan.
In recent years artists have used craft techniques to make art with a radical or subversive edge. Since Grayson Perry won the Turner Prize in 2003 for his decorated coil-pots, the art world has lost some of its fear and disdain for the word ‘craft’.
Contemporary Eye: Crossovers celebrates this experimentation, featuring works which challenge associations of twee country craft-shops. Artists such as Grayson Perry, Barnaby Barford and Debbie Lawson re-imagine traditional techniques to bring new meanings to their work.
The exhibition places the works in the domestic setting of Pallant House, a Grade 1-listed Queen Anne townhouse, alongside which stands a contemporary extension. Chippendale furniture from the historic rooms is relocated into the modern gallery spaces and placed in juxtaposition with a carved Arabic screen by Susan Hefuna and Nina Saunders’ amorphous furniture featuring taxidermied animal heads.
Meanwhile, Barnaby Barford’s ceramic figurines engage in a wry conversation with the Gallery’s collection of 18th century Bow Porcelain figurines, and Mona Hatoum’s glass hand grenades lay unexploded amongst a delicate collection of historic Irish glass.
The entrance hall of the house becomes an homage to traditional displays of hunting trophies and a celebration of taxidermy, featuring Polly Morgan’s glass vitrines of vermin sleeping under chandeliers, and Neil Hamon’s tableaux of stuffed animals and a copulating hare and chicken by Artists Anonymous.
The white-cube spaces of the new galleries are transformed with limited edition wallpapers by Jake and Dinos Chapman and Damien Hirst, tapestries by Grayson Perry and Gary Hume, and ceramics by the likes of Edmund de Waal, Livia Marin, Jeff Koons, and Bouke de Vraes.
Curated in association with the London-based Artwise Curators, all the works have been drawn from major private collections of contemporary art.
Contemporary Eye: Crossovers is at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester from 2nd October 2010 to 6th March 2011.